Vladimir Nabokov

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From: "Gabriel White" <gabew@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
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> The quote is from Chap. 11, part 2 of Speak, Memory (p. 169 in the 1999
> Everyman's Library edition).
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> Gabriel White
> Graduate Student
> Slavic Languages and Literature Department
> U.C. Berkeley
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> > From: "Kiran Krishna" <kiran@Physics.usyd.edu.au>
> > To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
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> > > Reading the poetry section of The Oxford History of Australian
> Literature
> > > by Vivian Smith, I came across a Nabokov quote: 'Tentacles, not wings,
> are
> > > Apollo's natural members.' Would someone be able to identify the quote
> for
> > > me, please? Thanks.
> > >
> > > Kiran
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> > > Kiran Krishna
> > > 3rd yr physics
> > > (Falkiner High Energy Physics)
> > > University of Sydney
> > > NSW 2006
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> > > The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weaker man with the
> > > sponge. First the criminal who slays then the sophist who defends the
> > > slayer.
> > > -Lord Acton
> > >
> > > http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~kiran
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